After leaving Qingyun, Li Wan'er deliberately traveled through uninhabited places. Before she knew it, half a month had passed.
Even so, she passed through several major cities and countless small towns and villages along the way.
Whenever this happened, she would settle Xiao Cha somewhere safe and enter the city alone to buy food and wine. Over the course of the journey, she sampled all manner of different flavors.
It was worth mentioning that major cities generally had strict guards and were relatively safe. Ordinary towns and villages, however, lacked the funds to train so many guards and could only grit their teeth and fend off the demon beasts that frequently harassed them.
Some of these demon beasts traveled alone, while others lived in packs. Wherever they went, they would at best prey upon livestock, and at worst slaughter people.
She witnessed several tragedies firsthand along the way. She happened to arrive in time for two of them, and only by intervening was disaster averted. By the time she saw most of the others, nothing remained but heaps of bones.
At first, she burned with righteous indignation and wished she could slaughter every demon beast under heaven.
But after seeing too much of it, she gradually grew used to it and could only sigh helplessly.
In this world, where human lives were as cheap as ants, merely surviving was already difficult enough for ordinary people.
Flowing Wave Mountain lay seven thousand li out at sea, in the farthest east of the world, vast and boundless.
This place stood isolated overseas, deserted and uninhabited. It had originally been a Pure Land apart from the world.
After the righteous sect disciples explored Kongsang Mountain, Demonic Cult fiends suddenly appeared near Flowing Wave Mountain and began slaughtering the local cultivation sects on